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36.) the feminine name; both these in French 

 would be Anne. Marius and Maria would be 

 Marie ; and Lucius and Lucia, Lucie. Louis, 

 Louise, differ in modern French, but if written 

 in the old way, as derived from Aloysius, would 

 both read Louise. Jean Marie Farina ought to 

 be translated into English, John Marius Farina, 

 and Anne de Montmorency, Annas of Montmo- 

 rency. A. A. 



Arvill (2"^ S. iv. 368.) —Thoresby, himself a 

 Yorkshireman, says in his Diary, May 7', 1702, 

 that this word is derived from the Saxon ?in&» 

 alimentum, sustenance, nourishment, &c. Vebna. 



Sir John Pou-ell (2°'' S. iv. 329.) — Tyro asks 

 for the arms of Sir John Powell of Broadway, 

 Carmurthensldre, a judge of King's Bench temp. 

 William III. 



Atkyns, in his Ancient and Present History of 

 Glouceslersliire, published in 1712, speaks of him 

 as a native of the city of Gloucester, and that he 

 was residing there when he wrote. He says : — 

 " His solid judgment in the municipal laws, and 

 moderation in behaviour, have deservedly placed 

 him on the bench in the highest courts of judica- 

 ture in the nation." Sir John Powell died 13th 

 July, 1713, aged 68 years and 19 days, as appears 

 by his epitaph given by Rudder in his History of 

 Gloucestershire (1779), who says: — "Against 

 the north wall in the Lady's Chapel" (in the 

 Cathedral) " is a magnificent monument in white 

 marble, with his effigies at length in a judge's 

 habit." I have not been in that beautiful Lady's 

 Chapel since 1794, when I attended there daily, as 

 a schoolboy, at early morning prayers. But the 

 figure is impressed on my memory as that of a very 

 fine erect statue, and not an " effigies at length." 

 Rudder adds that, " Over his head are these 

 arms : Party per pale, azure and gules, three lion- 

 eels, rampant, argent" And as such it is engraved 

 in the " Table of the Coats of Arms " given in 

 Atkyns, but is there headed, " Powell, Mr. Jus- 

 tice oi Deerhurst" which is a {)arish in Gloucester- 

 shire. Tlie same is also given in the Collection of 

 the Coats of Arms of Gloucestershire, published 

 by the late Sir George Naylor, Garter King of 

 Arms, in 1792, but confessedly taken from At- 

 kyns and Rudder. A reference to the Latin 

 epitaph, as given by Rudder, will perhaps be use- 

 ful to Tyro ; for it contains a record of the par- 

 ticulars of his high character, and of the several 

 stages of his advancement to the highest of his 

 legal honours. P. H. F. 



MiittUn\\za\x€, 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



For many, many, years among the most marked features 

 of the Quarterly Review were the articles, notoriously from 



the pen of the late Mr. Croker, in which that amusing, 

 but not always accurate class of books, the French Me- 

 moirs, were subjected to his critical and searching examin- 

 ation. In some cases the reader learned with surprise that 

 the Memoirs under review were neither more nor less than 

 a tissue of falsehoods from the title-page doAvn to the only 

 word of truth in them — Finis, and owed their existence 

 to the fertile imagination of some literary hack and the 

 cupidity of some unscrupulous bookseller. In others he 

 showed that, although written by the authors in whose 

 names they appeared, the statements they contained 

 were by no means to be relied upon. Among these 

 Memoirs, those relating to that great social and poli- 

 tical problem, the French Revolution, are the most im- 

 portant; and upon no historical event is truth more 

 hard to be obtained, more highly to be prized, than with 

 respect to this, which has exercised so enormous an 

 influence over every State in Europe. It is therefore 

 doing good service to the great cause of historical truth 

 to reproduce, as Mr. Murray has just done, in one hand- 

 some octavo volume. Essays on the Earlier Period of the 

 French Revolution by the late Right Hon. John Wilson 

 Croker. Reprinted from the Quarterly Review, with Addi- 

 tions and Corrections. The Essays so reprinted are eight 

 in number, viz., I. Thiers' s Histories ; II. Louis XVI. and 

 Marie Antoinette ; III. The Journey to Vai-ennes and Brus- 

 sels, June, 1791 ; IV. On the 20fh June and 10th August, 

 1792; V. The Captivity in the Temple ; VI. Robespierre; 

 VII. The Revolutionary Tribunals; and lastly, VIII. 

 The Guillotine. Believing as we do fully the author's as- 

 surance that he has not written one word that lie "did 

 not believe to be the Tkuth," and that these " Essays 

 contain a good deal of curious, and what is rarer and of 

 more importance, authentic information on the subject 

 that is not to be found in any single publication,""^e 

 feel assured that the work must at once take its place 

 on the shelves of every one interested in the history of 

 modern Europe. 



The value of Dr. Waagen's contributions to the His- 

 tory of Art, and the important influence which his three 

 volumes, IVeasui-es of Ai-t in Great Britain, have exer- 

 cised among us, are so generally recognised, that a 

 volume which completes his account of the riches of this 

 country in this respect cannot but be cordially welcomed. 

 This he has just given to the world in one large volume, 

 under the title of Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great 

 Britain, being an Account of more than Forty Collections 

 of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Manuscripts, ifc, 

 visited in 1854 and 1857, and now for the First Time de- 

 scribed by Dr. Waagen, forming a Supplemental Volume to 

 the Ti-eanures of Art in Great Britain. The contents of 

 this volume consist partly of additions to collections al- 

 ready described, partly of collections not before known to 

 the author. And as in this, as in the preceding volumes, 

 Dr. Waagen has endeavoured to give such a description 

 of every work of Art as might suffice in future to identify 

 it, his work is obviously one which will be of as great 

 future utility as it is of present interest. 



Messrs. De la Rue have just issued their Improved In- 

 delible Diai-y and Memorandum Book for 1858, edited by 

 Norman Pogson, First Assistant at the Radcliffe Observa- 

 tory, Oxford. To those who have been accustomed to 

 use these neat, complete, and most useful Pocket Com- 

 panions, any mention of their excellence is superfluous. 

 Those who have not, we shall merely advise, before select- 

 ing a Pocket Book for next year, to compare De la Rue's 

 with any other they may have been in the habit -of 

 using. 



Part II, of Darling's Cyclopoidia Bibliographica is now 

 before us. It is, as our readers are aware, a portion of the 

 second great Division of Mr. Darling's useful book, which 



